Art exhibitions in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta and Jamshedpur

The Paris-based Burroan keeps pulling fantasy figures out of his febrile imagination, like rabbits out of a hat, Harlequins, Odalisques, clowns.

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December 31, 1992

ISSUE DATE: December 31, 1992

UPDATED: August 6, 2013 14:57 IST

F.N. Souza(Sakshi Art Gallery, Bombay)

It was vintage stuff from an old master of the modern, contemporary Indian art scene - provocative nudes on canvas, as well as the characteristic landscapes of Goa. Also included in the Souza exhibition were powerful, gripping portraits on paper which dated all the way back to the '60s.

Shakti Burman: (CCA, New Delhi and later Chitrakoot Gallery, Calcutta); and Maite Delteil:(Habiart, New Delhi and later Genesis, Calcutta)

The Paris-based Burroan keeps pulling fantasy figures out of his febrile imagination, like rabbits out of a hat, Harlequins, Odalisques, clowns.

But now the mythical figures afloat in a Burmanesque never-never land - free from perspective, gravity - have made more room for men in brown suits and maidens with Indian anklets or short skirts.

This pot-pourri has Eves and many-headed gods with flutes. Burman's French wife Delteil is also showing in India - at different galleries. Obviously, both paint a world of fantasy. But Delteil's canvases, accompanied by poems, are child-like, soft and illustrative, with fairy land pastels, flirting occasionally with the surreal.

Laxman in his delightful work gives you that every-dayness which one no longer sees.

The India beneath our noses ranging from the cities to the countryside. Put together by the Workshop of Calcutta, the 31 sketches will be exhibited in the metropolitan cities as well as Jamshedpur since it has been sponsored by Tata Steel.

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